The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-04

| they are Londoners who couldn't so much as
| pronounce the word heaven without leaving the
! II out.
Efie's mother is going to make lot of COM
fortabies for the BEDS and bale of fifty pounds
of cotton was left at the house. The little girl
looked on as the mating was ripped or and re-
Marked half crying, DO you spect I'm gong 70
have such big ear-ache is wifttergH Her mother
had lately put lock of cotton in the youngsters
ear. and fifty pounds of cotton betokened an a"-
full lot of pain.
A mother had occasion to reprimand the
child, and with view to moral improvement,
told her that even if her mother or herself didn't
see her do wrong. the Lord saw her all the time
That afternoon they took the child to theater
matinee. During the performance che looked up
at the ventilator in the roof and broke out: Il
say does the Lord see me here!
Hush said the mother, 1.-The Lord sees you
everywhere
..Then He's seeing the show for nothin,". re-
piled the child, with evident dissatisfaction.
number a gilded favorite of fortune among
my intimate friends. She is a married bele
whose name you often see In the reports OF DO
inss in the u1tra-feslionable world, proud and
naughty young wife of a millionaire, worth over
million in her own right, and married to about
two millions. 1t struck that it would be in
teresting to tell the public how she keeps her
dresses. how many she has. how she buys them.
what she does with those she tires Of. and all
the rest that women would like TO know about
woman who has 5f1iate4er she wants, whenever
she wants it. and matter what Il costs or
wherever it has to be gotten. For, to me, my
friend Miriam is precisely like real flesh ana
blood heroine out of Ouida's novels, and Omda
has never told us those inner household matter
of-fact household secrets of the routine life OF
F1lded dame that we are all anxious TO hear. 10
begin WITH Miriam never buys any dress goods.
Sometimes when she is shopping she sees deli
cate stuff for dress. and if she deems it irresist-
ible she gets sample of it and takes 1t to her
dress maker to have a dress made of it, but that
seldom happens. She never considers whether
She has dresses enohgh; in fact she tells me that
ever since she was married she has had great
many more dresses than she could keep the run
of she is forever coming across pretty
dresses, wraps sacks, morning gowns and things
that she had forgotten and that she falls IN love
with anew and dresses up IN and enjoys the
pleasures of child, for she Is very tasteful and
makes of dressing a study and an art der
dresses are literally all over her Madison avenue
house. Every closet except those IN her hus-
bands room and those in her sisters rooms, is
filled with her dresses. and when l say that,
mean to add that never before did see SO many
closets as there are in that house. The second
floor hallway. for instance, including addi-
tional hallway at the end of it. leading to the
servants addition to the mansion, is lined with
these closets. built on purpose Then there are
other closets on the parlor floor and on the two
upper hoors-in the rooms. halls and the pass
ages between the rooms 1T Is on the second
floor that she keeps the gowns she thinks she IS
goifig TO use the most. In all. she must have
one hundred dresses Suits. and full COS
TUNES of various kinds Then she has about a
dozen trunks that are filed with lineI. hosiery,
handk erchiefs. lace, hats. boots. gloves wraps,
shawls, cloaks. and ali the rest of the little
things that go to complete wardrobe. In re-
spect of these things she considers herself poor,
and so she Is, compared to her sister. and to
hundreds of women of even less wealth who
have hobbies for amassing large piles of pretty
little things. Her sister has hundreds of hand
ka-4el 1iafs inst and ioh as
fifty dollars for a handkerchief If she falls IN
love with it. and has spent n little mint on the
richest web-like linen and combination OF lace
and linen. silk and linen, at the rate of SO for
a chemise or pair of indesc1ibables. But my
friend Miriam cares very little for fthen When
she needs handkerchief or underwear she buys
Il dozen of each thing. of silk always. but wholly
for use. She has piles OF stockings and heaps
of boots, TO be sure, but then she always buys
those things to 20 with each suit. and they
heap up. II Is IN dresses that her taste leads her
to excesses. and you must know that the great
number she has on hand mainly represent only
half years collection for she sorts over her
things twice year and weeds out great bundles
and boxes of them. which she gives away to her
servants, her favorite hospital the needy family
of her seamstress. who is always in her employ,
and to her poor friends. for she has number
of girlhood friends that not well off. and she
almost dresses them and fits them out
for marriage and clothes their children
all out of her supeabundance- This
sounds exaggerated. but it Is not a
particle SO. She sends away what would fill four
sure, Is better dressed whenever she goes out
than the wives of most men who earn 81 600
year. She has hats and jewelry, boots and
stockings for everything she puts on. All her
plain gold and silver jewelry she keeps in little
boxes and saucers in her dressing stand top
drawer, and on the stand, in the pincushion and
scattered about She says she never lost a
thing that way in her life. Her jewels. her
rubies. pearls diamonds sapphires, and stones
of all kinds, she keeps in fre-proof box in the
wall of her bedroom. She has nlarrelous col
lection. and boasts that every piece of it Is of
her devising. except her mothers and
grandnothers jewels, which to her
and before her marriage, and which form
only half of her treasure for she adds to the lot
constantly though she will only buy in two
stores-one here and one in London. She says
the best jewellers. dress makers miiliners and
shopping stores in the world are in New York.
And she knows. for she goes abroad every year.
You never saw lady dress quickly she
does She lays out her suit, the stockings and
shoes to match the iewelry she is going to wear.
the appropriate handkerchief and gloves, the
right bonnet and veil-and honestly think she
has hundreds of veils-and then she puts all ON
and is dressed. She only wears her hair one
way. that is trouble, and everything else
fits and matches precisely. SO there is no bother
about it. She has floor glass six feet tall and
three feet wide a three-sded face glass, and the
mirror on her dressing that a glance
here and there tells her whether she IS all right
or not, behind and at the sides. And when she
steps out of her room she is every inch a belle
and queen. the envy of her sex. and the most
attractive woman of her set to the men about
whom she cares no more than If she was
statue and they were so many pumpkins around
it. CLARA BELLE.
CHANGE IN THE LORDS PRAYER.